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Alberto Sordi: Rome
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Veteran talent Alberto Sordi, famed for his memorable performance in Federico Fellini's The White Sheik, has created a throwback to Italian comedies of the 1950s. Engineer Armando Andreoli (Sordi) is making a train trip from Rome to a Bologna conference. Beautiful blonde Federica (Valeria Marini) is a nurse who cares for elderly patients, but when she enters his private train compartment, the suspicious Armando thinks she might be a prostitute or thief. The notion persists when she follows him to the conference. Armando fails to find a hotel room for the night, so Federica says he can share her pensione bed. The following morning, her fiancé enters the room, misunderstands, and ends their engagement.
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Synopsis: Veteran talent Alberto Sordi, famed for his memorable performance in Federico Fellini's The White Sheik, has created a throwback to Italian comedies of the 1950s. Engineer Armando Andreoli (Sordi) is making a train trip from Rome to a Bologna conference. Beautiful blonde Federica (Valeria Marini)Read More
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In 1972, Bette Davis, appeared with Alberto Sordi, then one of Italy’s biggest stars in a film shot in Rome, “The Scientific Cardplayer”. During an interview Sordi laughingly recalled that American actress, Bette Davis, called him “Mr. Sordid.”
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A tide of emotion swept through Rome today when 250,000 people said a last good-bye to Alberto Sordi, one of Italy’s most beloved comic actors. Sordi died Monday night of bronchitis in Rome at age 82. Thousands of Romans passed by his villa in piazza Numa Pompilio to leave flowers and notes and or visited the open coffin to pay respects for two nights in a row. The funeral, attended by luminaries and everyday folk, had to be moved to the larger Basilica of San Giovanni to hold the crowds.
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Sordi won five David di Donatello, Italy's most prestigious film award, and four awards for his works from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists. He ... received a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 1995, and The Golden Globe Award for his performance as an Italian labourer stranded in Sweden in To Bed or Not to Bed. In 1999, the city of Rome made him honorary mayor for a day to celebrate his eightieth birthday.
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Born in Rome to a schoolteacher and a musician, Sordi enrolled in Milan's dramatic arts academy but was kicked out because of his thick Roman accent. Ironically, it was his accent that would later prove to be his trademark.
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